Chauvin (surname)

Chauvin is a

surname In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community. Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...

. Notable people with the surname include: *

Derek Chauvin Derek Michael Chauvin ( ; born March 19, 1976) is an American former police officer who was convicted for the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Chauvin was a member of the Minneapolis Police ...

(born 1976), an American police officer who was convicted of

murdering Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the c ...

George Floyd George Perry Floyd Jr. (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African-American man who was murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a store clerk suspected Floyd may have used a counterfeit twe ...

Étienne Chauvin Étienne Chauvin (18 April 16406 April 1725), French Protestant divine, was born in Nîmes. At the revocation of the Edict of Nantes he retired to Rotterdam where he was for some years preacher at the Walloon church. In 1695 the elector of Bran ...

(1640–1725), French Protestant divine *

Frank Chauvin Francis Chauvin (November 18, 1933 - March 13, 2015) was a Canadian police detective from Windsor, Ontario. He is best known for resigning from the Order of Canada in protest at the appointment of Henry Morgentaler to the Order in 2009. He retired ...

(c. 1933–2015), a Canadian charity worker *

Ingrid Chauvin Ingrid Chauvin (; born 3 October 1973) is a French television and stage actress, known for her roles in the miniseries ''Méditerranée'', ''Dolmen'', and the police procedural series ''Femmes de loi''. Early life and career Ingrid Chauvin was ...

(born 1973), French actress * Jean Chauvin (1509–1564), French theologian, pastor and reformer *

Jeanne Chauvin Jeanne Chauvin (22 April 1862 – 7 September 1926) was the second woman to obtain a degree in law in France, in 1890. Her application to be sworn in as a lawyer was at first rejected, but after the law was changed in 1900 she was the second French ...

(1862–1926), French lawyer *

Julien Chauvin Julien Chauvin (born 1979) is a French violinist and music director, specialized in the interpretation on period instruments and gut strings, co-founder of the orchestra the (2004-2014), as well as the (2007), and founder of the Concert de la ...

(born 1979), French violinist *

Landry Chauvin Landry Chauvin (born 7 December 1968) is a French former association football, footballer who most recently was the manager (association football), manager of Tunisian team Club Africain. Chauvin spent his playing career in the semi-professional ...

(born 1968), a French former footballer *

Léon Adolphe Chauvin Léon Adolphe Chauvin (July 20, 1861 – June 8, 1904) was a lawyer and political figure in Quebec, Canada. Chauvin represented Terrebonne in the House of Commons of Canada from 1896 to 1900 as a Conservative. He was born in Terrebonne, Ca ...

(1861–1904), Canadian lawyer * Lilyan Chauvin (1925–2008), French-American actress *

Louis Chauvin Louis Chauvin (March 13, 1881March 26, 1908) was an American ragtime pianist and composer. Early life and education Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Mexican Spanish-Indian father and an African-American mother, he widely was considered the finest ...

(1881–1908), American ragtime composer * Madame Vignon-Chauvin (19th century), French fashion designer *

Marcel Chauvin Marcel Chuavin (born 26 Apr, 1914 in Couëron) was a French clergyman and auxiliary bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fada N'Gourma The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fada N'Gourma ( la, Dioecesis Fada Ngurmaënsis) is a diocese located in ...

(1914–2004), French clergyman and auxiliary bishop * Nicolas Chauvin, a mythical patriot said to have served during Napoleon Bonaparte's reign; origin of the term ''chauvinism'' * Nicolas Chauvin de La Frénière (died 1769), son of Nicolas Chauvin * Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit (died 1603), French naval and military captain and a lieutenant of New France *

Pierre-Athanase Chauvin Pierre Athanase Chauvin was a French painter active in Italy. Chauvin was a student of the landscape painter Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. He began his career at the Paris Salon in 1793 and won the First Class Medal in 1819 with his painting ' ...

(1774–1832), French painter active in Italy *

Remy Chauvin Remy Chauvin (10 October 1913 – 8 December 2009) at Sainte-Croix-aux-Mines, Haut-Rhin, was a biologist and entomologist, and a French people, French Honorary Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, PhD, and a senior research fell ...

(1913–2009), French biologist *

Victor Chauvin Victor Chauvin (1844–1913), an Arabic and Hebrew professor at the University of Liège, wrote a number of notable books on Middle Eastern literature and folklore, orientalism, biblical history, and Sharia Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharī� ...

(1844–1913), Arabic and Hebrew professor *

Yves Chauvin Yves Chauvin (; 10 October 1930 – 27 January 2015) was a French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. He was honorary research director at the ''Institut français du pétrole'' and a member of the French Academy of Science. He was known for his work ...

(1930–2015), French chemist {{surname, Chauvin French-language surnames